HELLO, HEllo, hello

The Obama is good for the carrot on the stick, meaning, all the benefits for the unemployed but your ass has to fill out 1 freakn'y ba-zillion forms and
waste hours wading through loosers to get simple answers to not so commonly asked questions.

This is not your father's (or grandfather's... or even great-grandfather's) economic downturn. There were programs put into place during the great
depression that put artisan craftsmen to work building government buildings.... by gum, if industry didn't need things built, at least we could use a new
building for gov't purposes... and if that one guy can make the best lion-head decorations to go around the top, then we'll order a bunch of those so
that the guy can stay busy and pay his rent. Seriously, there's a huge multi-story post office in a local downtown area that was built exactly that way.
And it makes more sense than handouts or stimulus packages. I've even heard stories of trauma surgeons that are out of work right now. An unfortunate
by-product is that some companies are taking advantage of the landscape to do get away with treating employees less-than-ideal, knowing that people are
terrified of losing 'any' job. I have friends and relatives that are in college or have just graduated and they have no prospects. People cannot wait
until a 'turnaround' mid-term election. Instead people are leaving their homes to go to othere cities and states where the jobs are, which is bad for
both cities in the long run.

Heroes are hard to find these days. We turned to larger-than-live music personalities in the 70s and 80s to escape. We need the costumes and the set props and
the stadium tours that featured mindless songs with mindless lyrics that could transport our minds to a trouble-free place for an hour or so.

I come here when I can. But I'm a member of so many rockband message boards that it's hard to be a regular or even a semi-regular poster on any of them. But I like coming here. You all seem like such a fun, close-knit bunch